Talbot Rice

Accompanying text: An Excerpt from the Bhatia Family Archives aims to give you an insight into my background as a fellow human being (quite how, I’m not sure).

These tapes, as far as I can surmise, were absorbed into my childhood sub-consciousness, and lead me to share a collective consciousness with the rest of the Bhatia family. I believe, in all sincerity, that they left an indelible mark upon my character as a functioning member of our glorious society.

There are certain traits that exist temporally within families and I propose that it is obsession that is prevalent in mine. This obsession is manifest in the form of categorization, collecting, recording and arranging. For example, my father has kept a record of the different species of bird he has seen, when he saw them and where since the late 1960’s in a series of detailed notebooks.

The organisation of objects and subsequent arranging as it was passed down the generations has quite literally become an artform. I myself have amassed ethnographic trinkets (some say junk) and compulsively curated my own little museum (albeit in my bedroom).

My uncle Arun has been buying and obsessively recording music for over 40 years. He habitually, to the extremes of addiction, buys CD’s, records them onto tape, mini-disc and ultimately stores them in the families London loft. There was genuine concern as to the structural integrity of the house due to the sheer weight of all his recordings. I am told that the Bhatacharjee family (exluding uncle Arun of course) quite earnestly feared for their lives.

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CRYPTOLOGY

Born on a cold night in 1986, it was clear that Omar was a special child. Between 1994-97, Omar lived on the edge of the Great Rift Valley mountain range in darkest Africa. After a time lost in the Great British educational system, it became apparent that Omar's only chance was art school. In the winter of 2007 he was exchanged and went to live in Transylvania (Romania) because he thought it would look good on paper. Painstakingly and with much controversy he graduated from art school in 2009 and his degree show entitled 'Omar's Spuriosity Shop' was met with wide acclaim and his work now exists in many countries. Omar travels around with his briefcase which holds essential documents and he insists on delivering artwork personally, where he can, as long as he is given coffee. He always appears on time and in full Sabbath attire or his leathers. If you should want to contact Omar for exhibitions, commissions, or any other business his email address is zingaromar@gmail.com -
Despite the way that he presents himself, it's all smoke and mirrors, he is in fact very approachable.